Charles Clément Auguste Moeller (1838–1922) was a Belgian historian.

Life

Moeller was born in

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on 14 April 1838, the son of Jean Moeller, a professor of history at the newly refounded

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, "Moeller, Charles", ''

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vol. 33
(Brussels, 1965), 495-496. He himself became a lecturer at the same university in 1863, teaching courses on the

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and of the

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. From 1883 he also taught

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. In 1891 he stopped teaching ancient history. His son, Alfred Alphonse Moeller, became a colonial administrator, governor of

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in the Belgian Congo, and later a businessman. To mark his fifty years of teaching at the university (1863–1913), a two-volume ''

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'' was published by former members of the historical seminar in Leuven, ''Mélanges d'histoire offerts à Charles Moeller'' (Leuven and Paris, 1914). At the outbreak of the

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he briefly became a refugee in Oxford. In 1916 he was appointed director of the Belgian Historical Institute in Rome. He retired in 1919, and died in

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) on 28 July 1922.

Publications

*''Éléonore d'Autriche et de Bourgogne, reine de France'' (Paris, 1895) *''Histoire du moyen âge depuis la chute de l'Empire romain jusqu'à la fin de l'époque franque, 476-950'' (2 vols., Leuven and Paris, 1898-1902) *''Histoire politique générale'', vol. 5: ''La politique des États européens durant la seconde moitié du siècle dernier, de 1850 à 1900'' (Paris, 1912) *''Histoire contemporaine, 1850-1890'' (Leuven and Paris, 1913)On Google Books
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Moeller, Charles 1838 births 1922 deaths Catholic University of Leuven alumni Academic staff of the Catholic University of Leuven (1834–1968) 20th-century Belgian historians Contributors to the Catholic Encyclopedia 19th-century Belgian historians